Where is my Bulldozer ? This is what happens when things get lost and they turn up in the most unexpected places...

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Where is my Bulldozer ? This is what happens when things get lost and they turn up in the most unexpected places...

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First of all ….. You have a big Tonka Toy called The Ultimate Earth Mover…

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Ultimate Earth Mover This is the largest earth mover in the world... built by the German company, Krupp, and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany, en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine). It is cheaper to move it like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite...

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Specifications: - The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long; - It weighs over 45,500 tons; - Cost $100 million to build; - 5 years to design and manufacture; - 5 years to assemble; - Requires 5 people to operate it; - The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material; - A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets; - It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long); - There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back; - Maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour); - It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day (100,000 large dump trucks at 40 yards each)…